Daily puzzle

Put The Nose back in order

Seven beats from our edition of The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.

  1. A nose in the bread The barber Ivan Yakovlevich finds a nose baked into his breakfast loaf and recognizes it as belonging to a client.
  2. Disposal in the Neva Terrified, the barber wraps the nose and contrives to drop it from a bridge into the river, where a policeman spots him.
  3. Kovalyov's discovery Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov wakes to a smooth, blank space where his nose belonged and rushes out in horror.
  4. The nose in uniform Kovalyov spots his own nose strolling about town as a uniformed gentleman of higher rank and cannot make it acknowledge him.
  5. Failed remedies He pleads at the newspaper office and the police; the nose is caught fleeing the city, but no doctor can put it back.
  6. Public rumor Gossip about the wandering nose spreads through Petersburg, and crowds gather to glimpse the marvel.
  7. Restored without reason Kovalyov wakes one morning with the nose back in place; life resumes, and the narrator shrugs at the senselessness of it all.